Introduction of Photo Story Project and Photo Essay:
Telling a story is the pinnacle of photojournalism. Displaying photos with the correct copy is really important. Focuses on an individual, group, place. Structure is fairly rigid. Pictures reinforce each other. Often develops chronologically. Lots of cools photos story’s take place around the country. Look up day in the life. Can develop in sequence. Begginning Middle and End.

Photo essays: Photos are of different situations. Each shot must stand on its own. Structure is looser.

Shooting Narratives:
Pairs, Groups, Sequences.

Slew of examples of photo stories. The opening picture is very important. It should show people involved and introduce the story in a meaningful way. Establish the main characters, the setting and what is happening. F8 and be there. Use wide shots, medium shots and close up shots to tell the important aspects of the story. The cutaway shot reactant to the story after the action in the meaningful way. Chronology plays a big roll in telling a photo story. Using text and layout in a meaningful tells a better story.

Class  Notes for NMD 341 on 1/28

First viewing the fact that the diigo group is up and now we can all join and comment on articles. We moved on to discuss the two new assignments he has passed out.

Show people doing things that make them newsworthy and show emotions in photos in an important way.

The Emotion/Interaction Assignment is to take a candid photo of two or more people interacting in a meaningful way. So look for interesting body language, facial expressions and gestures. Focus on interactions in meaningful ways. When taking these photos make sure to fully understand whats going on in the photo just beyond the image. Find out the stories behind each of the subjects of the photo. If you can’t be at an event, try to find actions during the preparations of the event. Body language is very important in creating interesting photos. David Duncan Douglas was a very famous war time photographer from the 1960s. Sometimes two many details distract from the important aspects of a photo. Do not take photos of sporting events, even though playing sports is all about interactions. Try to tell a story with the interactions. It is due February 19th.

So take the photo first in order to capture the moment and then ask the permission of the subjects after the fact, if not okay delete the photo.

For six strangers assignment find like a place of work, talk to the boss and take pictures of the employes.

Be at ease. be prepared.
Know your equipment. Carry as little gear as possible.
Meter in advance. Set aperture and shutter before the action begins.
Dress for the situation. Conservative always is good.
Place subjects in front of simple backgrounds.
Conduct yourself as if you have a right to be there.
Be still. Be looking, be watching.
Move infrequently and slowly. Avoid eye contact.
Respect your subject.
Don’t be sneaky. Explain your purpose in advance.
Be clear that you are participating in a class exercise.
Get permission from responsible parties before attempting to photograph children.
Get ids of everyone who is prominent in the photo
Belive in yourself and in your mission.
Know your rights.
Respect the rights of victims.

What we talked about:

Old cameras, different forms of cameras for different purposes. The modern digital camera. Single lenses reflex form to ground glass. Cameras also have electric images to present what the camera is looking at. Lots of functions and buttons to do different things.

Photography club, meets on campus and just practices taking pictures. Derick is pretty cool and he took a lot of photos in a period of two years.

How many megapixels do you need?
Web for low res: .3 MP
Newspaper: 1.8MP
Most cameras end up around 20MP

The light-sensing chips are pretty small. Lots of different forms of storage mediums and they are all very small. Use a lot of small memory cards so that if one breaks, you don’t lose all your images.

Files formats tif ( tag image file format )
jpg ( joint pohoto experts group)
phg (portable network graphics)
gif (graphics interchange format)
RAW
DNG ( digital negative)
PDF ( portable document format)

Most often we will work in jpeg and raw
File naming format:
first
first_last
first_last_yymmdd
first_last_yymmdd_001

DP & Storytelling naming assignment
assignment_lastname
assignment_lastname_0X

Metadata: automatic date
file size
shutter/apperture/ISO
lens and focal length
flash status
User Meta Data
name
copyright notice
caption info

File Compression  Lossless
Tif, png, fig, bmp
Something else
jpeg and stuff
File sizes are important

Some cameras are getting very fast and have a lot of great features. Most are around 700 dollars. Having a lot of lenses is fun!  For more information go to dpreview.com  Use the cameras different settings for the different situations you can be in.
The screen on the camera usually shows you the different settings you have set up. The cameras have a bunch of cool buttons for doing interesting things. Basically play with the camera till you understand what everything does. The memory card is very sensitive. Use the cameras manual to get more specific information about the camera.